Gershom Gorenberg, writing in the Washington Post, claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weakens support for Israel within the United States. But the piece is so full of lies and distortions that one wonders that the Washington Post let it stand. Gorenberg’s main gripe is Israel’s new Nation-State law, but Israeli laws are not …
Category: Israel
World in Uproar Over Israel Jewish Nation-State Law
Israel finally did it: enshrined into law the basic premise that Israel is the Jewish State and its official language is. . . wait for it. . . Hebrew. Are you shocked? You shouldn’t be. Every country has a similar law. In France, for instance, French is the official language, even though a lot of …
Falling Stone: What Does it Mean After Tisha B’Av?
A stone fell out of the Western Wall, early Monday morning, the day after we celebrated Tisha B’Av (albeit a day late because of Shabbat). The mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat and city engineer Shlomo Eshkol came to inspect the fallen stone and the decision was made to fence off the area until the Antiquities …
Should Israel Pay For Jewish Education in America?
According to a report on the first conference of North American Jewish school principals that recently took place in Jerusalem, Jewish leaders from the U.S. and Canada asked the Israeli government to subsidize tuition to Jewish schools. As anyone who tries to keep a Torah-observant lifestyle in the United States knows, tuition has become so …
BDS Activist Denied Entry Into Israel
Israel’s starting to wise up. You can be a democracy without letting people who hurt you have free reign to wreak havoc in your country. That is what Jewish American BDS activist Ariel Elyse Gold of Code Pink discovered when her plane landed in Tel Aviv. This is a nasty woman who agitates against Israel …
Israeli Democracy: Impeaching Zoabi
Because Israel is a democracy, anyone can run for office. That is why Israel has so many Members of Knesset that are Arabs. One of them is Haneen Zoabi who has publicly said things like “We need millions of Palestinians to march on Jerusalem. That is the aspiration. But we can’t do it, because the …
Guatemala Follows US Good Example, Moves Embassy to Jerusalem
Just two days after the United States moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, capital of Israel, Guatemala is following suit. Out of gratitude, the Jerusalem municipality beamed an expression of thanks to President Jimmy Morales Cabrera, garlanded with the Guatemalan flag, on Tuesday night, in lights on the walls of the Old City …
Prayers for the Safety of the Jewish People
Trump has called off the JCPOA, and the Iranians aimed a battery of missiles at Israel. The IDF opened bomb shelters in the Golan Heights and called up the reserves. It’s getting hot over there. There’s been an unconfirmed bombing of the Iranian missiles next to Israel in Syria. Israel never confirms a strike like …
Abbas Says Jews Deserved to Die in the Holocaust
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose doctoral thesis was a denial of the Holocaust, opened a speech of the Palestinian National Council by blaming the murder of over 6 million Jews on (wait for it) the Jews and their money-grubbing behavior. But that’s not antisemitic at all, right? Here’s what he said: “From the 11th …
U.S. Embassy Ready to Move
After months of speculation, it’s really happening: the U.S. Embassy is moving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital. The official move is slated for May 14th, Jerusalem Day. An access road has been created and road signs have gone up. Rumor has it that Jared and Ivanka Trump will be representing the Trump administration …